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... on to try to account for just what happens in his mind, feelings, and body when he does a detailed reading of a poem by Wallace Stevens, “The Motive for Metaphor.” He stresses that he did not know initially where his reading was going to lead. Though Miller makes reference to a number of theorists...

... in question the authors of the twelve chapters in this volume describe, the introduction theorizes the significance of governments worldwide being incapable of discerning who is and who is not a citizen. Jacqueline Stevens proposes that the recognition of governments’ inability to reliably assign citizenship...

... and court decisions enabling the deportation of U.S. citizens, a scenario that can be understood as aliens creating and using laws for deporting citizens. Jacqueline Stevens uses insights from Jacques Derrida and describes these legally staged events as “apologues,” a form of rhetoric that reduces...